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"\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.surfingmagazine.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2014\\/08\\/Unknown.jpeg\\\"&gt;&lt;img src=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.surfingmagazine.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2014\\/08\\/Unknown-667x375.jpeg\\\" alt=\\\"This is a Great White shark. Photo: DJ Struntz\\\" width=\\\"667\\\" height=\\\"375\\\" class=\\\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-89049\\\" srcset=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.surfingmagazine.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2014\\/08\\/Unknown-667x375.jpeg 667w, http:\\/\\/www.surfingmagazine.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2014\\/08\\/Unknown-1000x562.jpeg 1000w, http:\\/\\/www.surfingmagazine.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2014\\/08\\/Unknown-338x190.jpeg 338w, http:\\/\\/www.surfingmagazine.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2014\\/08\\/Unknown-200x112.jpeg 200w, http:\\/\\/www.surfingmagazine.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2014\\/08\\/Unknown-300x169.jpeg 300w, http:\\/\\/www.surfingmagazine.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2014\\/08\\/Unknown-640x360.jpeg 640w, http:\\/\\/www.surfingmagazine.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2014\\/08\\/Unknown-100x56.jpeg 100w, http:\\/\\/www.surfingmagazine.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2014\\/08\\/Unknown.jpeg 1600w\\\" sizes=\\\"(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\\\" \\/&gt;&lt;\\/a&gt;Yeah, that&amp;#8217;s a Great White shark. Photo: DJ Struntz &lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong style=\\\"font-size:130%;\\\"&gt;Some call \\u2018em windows to the soul.&lt;\\/strong&gt; In love and in folklore, eyes are said to tell a story. And not the story of genes and how they&amp;#8217;re expressed, but a story about life. The story of what an individual has seen and how they&amp;#8217;ve felt. They&amp;#8217;re supposed sing the songs of a spirit. And I&amp;#8217;m listening closely but not hearing a damn thing. I&amp;#8217;m locked in a cage underwater in South Africa, staring a Great white shark in the eye. I was hoping to see compassion. I came to see a story! I begged to hear the song. But I see nothing I can relate to. Just death\\u2019s rainy stare.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Great whites are all function and no fashion. They&amp;#8217;re hideous-looking creatures, Darwin&amp;#8217;s pale-bellied stepchild, built to kill and not to be a romantic. The only aesthetically pleasing thing about them is the way they swim. They drift through the sea without much fuss, like the way Tom Curren bottom turns or the way a Cabernet floods the palette. It&amp;#8217;s effortless; sure is beautiful. The catch is that they glide so gracefully like that and then they turn, chomp, thrash and kill. Sometimes people. &lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Historically, I&amp;#8217;ve been pro-shark through fat and thin. I&amp;#8217;ve stood naked atop the internet&amp;#8217;s milk crate and scolded the whole of Western Australia for culling the big fish after a string of attacks. &lt;em&gt;They can&amp;#8217;t be the man-hungry savages they&amp;#8217;re made out to be&lt;\\/em&gt;, I reasoned. &lt;em&gt;They aren&amp;#8217;t inherently bad. They&amp;#8217;re just wild animals with instincts and urges sometimes that leads to big, human-ending mistaken meals.&lt;\\/em&gt; The shark takes another lap and I no longer believe any of that. They are predators. Bastards. They will swallow your flesh, feel no remorse and come back for more. And there&amp;#8217;s absolutely nothing wrong with that. &lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;When you enter the ocean \\u2014 unless you&amp;#8217;re shoved in \\u2014 you voluntarily enter a world in which you&amp;#8217;re no longer king of the food chain. You are tossing your limbs and your life into the winds of fate. You might be eaten by a shark, because that&amp;#8217;s what happens in the ocean. Sharks eat things. Maybe they&amp;#8217;ll eat you. If you don&amp;#8217;t like it, pick up a golf club and start swinging \\u2014 ain&amp;#8217;t no dorsal fins on the fairway. &lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;So after staring at a shark&amp;#8217;s face, I no longer believe that they are wise, peaceful creatures with a bad reputation courtesy of the brains behind &lt;em&gt;Jaws&lt;\\/em&gt;. Sharks are devilish. They are satan&amp;#8217;s swimmers, but I&amp;#8217;m in the mood for a dance. &lt;strong&gt;\\u2014Brendan Buckley&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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